‘The Pasta Queen’ Prime Video Review: Stream It Or Skip It?

In The Pasta Queen, TikTok superstar and bestselling cookbook author Nadia Caterina Munno travels through Italy to find where various kinds of pasta originated, as well as where some of the superior ingredients of amazing Italian dishes come from. Then, in her Florida home, she cooks a couple of those dishes, with the flair and enthusiasm that made her a social media star.

Opening Shot: A woman in a sports car drives the Italian countryside. “The key to any great Italian meal is exquisite ingredients and a sprinkle of drama.”

The Gist:In the first episode, Munno travels to Puglia, the region where orecchiette originated. “Orecchiette” (pronounced Ora-kyetti, not Ora-chetti, according to Munno) means “little ears” in Italian, and she sits with one of the Pasta Ladies in the Puglian city of Bari, who sit outside and make pounds of orecchiette every day, with movements so second nature they don’t even have to look down …